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They will be increasingly aggressive with mueller. especially if mueller seems to be giving the democrats some of what they want, the republicans may really dig in. >> what is it, tom, that mueller could offer that could add momentum for the case for impeachment for democrats or against impeachment? . >> well, i think the things from the democrats's perspective mueller could say could help is, number one, the reason why he declined to reach a conclusion on the obstruction issue. if he says i felt i was constitutionally prohibited from doing it, the ball is in the court of the house of represen...

President. i think it reason he gave it press conference was to give ammunition to democrats. chris: mo, it will be interesting to see. the democratic staff seems to be this could be like pulling teeth to get him to say things. he's not a particularly forthcoming or cooperative witness, couldn't this be to coin a phrase, a dud? >> it could be. but i think you will see democrats focus on three lines of questioning. one will be drilling down on the contact the campaign had with the russians. two, the obstruction issue which i think will be interesting. again, mueller said in the report, at least...

Press conference was to give ammunition to democrats. chris: mo, it will be interesting to see. the democratic staff seems to be this could be like pulling teeth to get him to say things. he's not a particularly forthcoming or cooperative witness, couldn't this be to coin a phrase, a dud? >> it could be. but i think you will see democrats focus on three lines of questioning. one will be drilling down on the contact the campaign had with the russians. two, the obstruction issue which i think will be interesting. again, mueller said in the report, at least it's intimated from the report that the...

And i believe that's why the special counsel took his eight minutes and said that's not what i said, i did not exonerate the president of the united states. i left it to congress to make up their minds on the obstruction issue. he bent over backwards to be fair to the president of the united states following doj guidelines that he could not indict the president, which i disagree with. squeven beyond that, stating he couldn't take the position that because the president can't be indicted he can't go to trial to defend himself, then i don't want to take a stance because he can't defend himself. ...

Tell us ways you're part of the obama deep state conspiracy designed to get rid of trump ten years ago before we knew he was going to run. there were two hearings on wednesday. the first is the judiciary committee. then they take a break. they'll wipe the chairs down and they bring in the intelligence committee which will go after the issue of trump and russia. >> but you think neal's questions are good. >> those are good for the opening. i do think and this is my bias, i wrote a book on this with isikoff, that focusing overly on the obstruction issue as opposed to trump having played foot pic...